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IDG News Service – U.S. federal authorities arrested a 26-year-old man on Thursday for allegedly selling modified cable modems that enabled free Internet access, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Matthew Delorey of New Bedford, Mass., is charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of wire fraud. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison for each charge, and a $250,000 fine. Delorey allegedly ran a now-defunct Web site called Massmodz.com, where hacked modems were sold. The modems had been modified in order to spoof the device’s MAC (Media Access Control) address. It is possible then to either obtain free Internet access or make it appear that a different modem is obtaining access. Authorities... 

If you're a Facebook addict - and chances that if you have a parietal lobe and a mouse, you are - then you'll be interested to see this eye-opening article about how easy it is to hack through the privacy settings in your profile. According to ZDNet.com, an Israeli security research firm recently demonstrated just how easy it is to hack Facebook and bypass the privacy settings that so many of us hold dear. Claims the man: I could write malicious application that steals users personal info or even simple application that build for me a bot net users for malicious purposes like hacking systems for SQL Injections and DDOS attacks. Using ClickJacking i also could fool users to click whatever I want: adding me as their... 

In a few days, it will be a month since Christmas has come and past, and that usually means a month since you've opened up those new computers and laptops. While you're enjoying the free trial offers of expensive anti-spyware and virus protection programs, you're probably also aware (or even repeatedly reminded) that they're about to expire. If you don't want to pull out the credit card but don't want to lose the spam and virus protection, it's time to look at a third alternative - free programs. Yeah, yeah, I know. You get what you pay for, right? Some people may even be so dead-set against free anti-spyware that they simply pay for the more expensive suites just to feel comfortable. Don't be that person. Let's... 

The Obama administration is backing $675,000 in damages a Massachusetts student must pay the Recording Industry Association of America for file sharing 30 songs. The Justice Department, where President Barack Obama has tapped five former RIAA lawyers to serve, said copyright infringement “creates a public harm that Congress determined must be deterred.” The administration’s court filing Tuesday is the latest in the case of Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student who was the nation’s second defendant to go to trial against the RIAA on file sharing charges. Most of the 30,000 civil cases the music industry has brought have settled out of court. After the July verdict in a Boston federal court, Tenenbaum’s... 

As if there weren't enough worries about identity theft in this era high-tech, password/encrypted technology, we have to remind ourselves that identity theft still happens because of the hard technology and documents you expose to the world. Consider the case of William Pollock, a young man from Texas who was looking to find a solid moving company to help move his family to Pennsylvania. Pollock shopped around for a few different movers, as most of us would do, and when he wasn't happy with their price quotes, he turned to Craigslist.  There he found Moo-Ving.com, a company with a professional enough web site and, what's more attractive, a far lower price quote. Caveat emptor.  As it turned out, the company...